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Initiatives
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation To Support Global Effort To Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
Bernhard H. LieseThe World BankPhone: 202.458.4491Email: [email protected] WASHINGTON — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $20 million to accelerate the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF). Also known as…
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledges $100 Million Toward $550 Million AIDS Vaccine Goal
Kay MarshallInternational AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)Phone: 1.212.847.1044Email: [email protected] Victor Zonana International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)Phone: 41.0.7962.222.57Email: [email protected] DAVOS, Switzerland — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has issued a US$100 million…
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Deepam Educational Society For Health Receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant For Initiative In India
Saraswathi Sankaran, Ph.D., Executive DirectorDeepam Educational Society for Health (DESH)Phone: 91.44.4995580 CHENNAI, India — Deepam Educational Society for Health (DESH), a non-governmental organization that promotes health awareness, has received a…
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Catholic Community Services Receives $2 Million Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jackie O’Ryan, Director of Public AffairsPhone: 206.328.5786 SEATTLE — Catholic Community Services of Western Washington will increase their capacity to develop affordable housing by at least 50 percent over the…
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Washington Education Foundation Partners with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on School Reform and Scholarship Program
Steve ThorndillWashington Education FoundationPhone: 425.416.2000Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — A partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Washington Education Foundation (WEF) will create the largest private scholarship program…
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Sylvia M. Mathews Named Executive Vice-President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Trevor NeilsonBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3112 SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that Sylvia M. Mathews, Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Management and…
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Awards $15.1 Million To Treat African Sleeping Sickness And Leishmaniasis
Jacquelline FullerBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3400Email: [email protected] CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $15.1 million to an international consortium of researchers, led by…
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grants $4.9 Million to Pan American Health Organization to Improve Safety of Blood for Transfusion in the Americas
Daniel EpsteinPan American Health Organization (PAHO)Phone: 202.974.3459Email: [email protected] WASHINGTON — The safety of blood used for transfusion in the Americas is set to improve as a result of a three-year…
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CARE, World Vision, Oxfam, Save the Children and Mercy Corps Receive a Total of $1.6 Million for Kenyan and Afghanistan Drought Relief Efforts
Trevor NeilsonBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPhone: 206.709.3100, Email: [email protected] SEATTLE — CARE, World Vision, Oxfam, Save the Children and Mercy Corps International have received grants totaling $1.6 million from the…
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YATMA Receives Grant from the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation for Youth Music and Arts Programs
Mary RossiYouth Advancement Through Music and Art (YATMA)Phone: 518.966.8908Email: [email protected] SEATTLE and ALBANY, N.Y. — Youth Advancement Through Music and Art (YATMA), a music and arts program that touches youth…
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